The Story Behind Sense

The Story Behind SENSE:

In 2023, I went through many dramatic events, father die, marriage broke… I was in my darkest moment of my life.

19th November 2023, I was lying on the grass of “ great gathering event”, a name appears in my mind “ SENSE”, a thought came into my mind “ you must create a place called sense”, I didn’t understand where it came from , from invisible spirit? Aliens? Or my future self? I just know I must spend the rest of my life to do it.

After that, magical things started to happen around me, like there was a guide leading me to a certain point. I always believe there is no coincident in the universe, everything was like arranged perfectly.

This invisible power lead me to a almost untouched small island – Koh tan, once I stepped on this island, I felt a different energy which gives me goosebumps, the energy is pure and positive, most parts are covered by jungle, but luckily there was only one big beach front land for sell, perfectly for the project, that moment I felt and I knew it’s here, here is SENSE.

We decided to make our first psychedelic gathering in the beginning of next new year, because in the Chinese culture, the first day of the spring means reborn with a new beginning, we want to use music to bring good vibes to everyone, but that also means we have only 48 days to turn a jungle to a party place, the process is incredibly difficult, we invited our artists friends and local workers to build the deco toilets and everything else, we were working almost 15 hours a day , under the sun, with no electricity and no drinkable water, from sunrise to sunset we non stop doing deco, clean the land clean the beach and much more. But i always know we will make it, because I saw a vision of the gathering, it already happened in the future so it must happen.

After 48 days of hard work, we made it. The first SENSE gathering , it was very simple, many things are not perfect, but we still made it, everyone in the team had tears from happiness, like a mother seeing her child for the first time after a very painful birth delivery . Because of very short preparation, we had like only 200 attendants, maybe it’s the smallest festival in the world , but after the festival everyone came to us and saying they really felt very good vibes. And many of them found love.

( I’m truly grateful to everyone who participated in the last events, you are heros)

For me I never considered psychedelic party as a “ party “, it’s not for people getting drunk and dance with loud music. I think psychedelic event is very sacred, the music is also sacred, it can brings people to the “ trance”, I would call it the “ zero point”, it’s the state when you let go of your physical body, and let your soul connect to each other and connect to the universe, to open your mind and see the truth of this world, in this zero point, nothing matters, what you wear what you drive, how much money do you make, everything is just a flash of illusion. In this zero point, you can feel love filled up each cells like warm wind, and the only thing matters is what’s your experience at this moment of present.

And then I realized the meaning of creating SENSE, is nothing about profit, but to create a clean space to help people connect with this zero point. Wake up from the brainwashed sick fake world.

For the 2nd edition, we did many upgrades, we invited very talented team Bamboo Culture to build many beautiful chilling area with only nature materials, and also interesting, like a psychedelic playground.

We also upgraded our sound system to “ Funktion One Dance Stack”, even this made me crying a lot and bleeding a lot, but I wish a good sound system can bring people into the trance easier.

Maybe we won’t finish everything before February, but we will do our best to make this place better and better.

I always believe when you do something, you must be 100%concentrate on what you are doing, until you forget time forget your body, and become what you are doing. Then this thing what you created has a soul, and only with soul it became meaningful. We are not trying to make a big festival and selling a lot of alcohol to make a lot of money, we just wish the people who come here can be connected with their soul. And maybe cover our expenses to make us survive.

This time we chose our artists very carefully, maybe not many famous commercial DJ, but we make sure all their music has spirit, like a good shaman, can lead you to the right way. And bring you back.

I’m specially touched by a artist “ subconscious mind”, maybe no one heard of him before, but when you listen his music. You feel everything, you feel his happiness his pain. His struggling inside”, this is the kind of music we want to bring to this event.

For the future, we will make a big gathering once a year, at the beginning of every spring. But we also plan to build a small community, like we will have a music studio on the seaside, we welcome any artists join us and inspired from the nature and create something with spirit.

We also welcome other artists who wanna create some arts here because we have a quite big land.

And we will also have small psychedelic events on some special day. There is no limits. Anything can happen here.

On this island, we live a very simple and ancient life, we have no public electricity, we use only solar panels and generators, there is no hot shower, we drink water from a purified well, sometimes we go finishing for food, sometimes just wandering and find some fruits to eat. On this island, no one care about what you have, we only care about who you are. We are still in the process of building more bungalows to receive more people, but you also have the option to just live in a tent( like me).

So that’s pretty much all I want to say, and in the end , what’s the spirit of psychedelic? I wanna quote something I heard:

I don’t know what you want from me ,

I don’t care what you think of me,

But I know there is my soul, and it needs to be free.

It needs to be free.

Free from the sick world .

Free from the haunted past.

Free from the pain and trauma within.

Free from what was holding it and keeping it in ghost form. It needs to be released.

Freed.

So let the journey begin !

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